Language, material culture, fiction, cultural studies, more. Anything related to 6th – 10th centuries, anywhere in the world.
Nathan Gibson deposited Biblia Arabica: An Update on the State of Research in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 1 week, 1 day agoThe aim of this contribution is to review some of the major areas of current research on the Arabic Bible, along with the factors and trends contributing to them. Also we present some of the tools that are currently under development in the Biblia Arabica team, Munich.
We provide here a very condensed survey of the transmission of traditions,…[Read more]
Anna Dorofeeva deposited Review: Scriptorium. Wesen – Funktion – Eigenheiten. Comité international de paléographie latine, XVIII. Kolloquium. St. Gallen 11.–14. September 2013. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, ed. A. Nievergelt et al., Munich 2015 (C.H. Beck). 584 pp. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoThis is a book review (pre-print) of the 2013 CIPL edited volume on scriptoria.
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Anna Dorofeeva deposited Review: Felice Lifshitz, Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia. A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture, New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8232-5687-7, 368pp. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoThis is a book review (pre-print) of the 2014 book by Lifshitz.
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Anna Dorofeeva deposited Review: Julia Becker, Tino Licht, Stefan Weinfurter (Hg.), Karolingische Klöster. Wissenstransfer und kulturelle Innovation, Berlin, New York (De Gruyter) 2015, VI–307 S. (Materiale Textkulturen, 4), ISBN 9783110371239, EUR 89,95. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoThis is a book review (published version) of the 2015 book on Carolingian monasteries edited by Becker, Licht and Weinfurter.
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Anna Dorofeeva deposited Strategies of Knowledge Organisation in Early Medieval Latin Miscellanies: The Example of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14388 in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoThis chapter examines a particular miscellany manuscript’s strategies for arranging its texts for ease of use, legibility and coherence. It argues that such manuscripts were purposefully compiled and that their texts were enhanced by others produced in the same codicological context, showing that early medieval book-making was an innovative and…[Read more]
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Anna Dorofeeva deposited Review: Susanne Zwierlein, Studien zu den Arengen in den Urkunden Kaiser Ludwigs des Frommen (814–840). Monumenta Germaniae Historica – Studien und Texte 60 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2016). 471 pp, 7 diagrams, 99 tables. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 2 weeks agoThis is a short book review (pre-publication version) of the 2016 book by Susanne Zwierlein.
Evina Steinova deposited A Fragment of a Ninth-Century Liturgical Book in the Holdings of Utrecht University Library in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 months agoThe subject of this paper is a fragment of a liturgical book that is a part of the manuscript fragment collection in the holdings of the Utrecht University Library Special Collections. The fragment was brought to light in the 1960s, after it was rebound into a manuscript belonging to the St. Paul’s Abbey, Utrecht, where it was inserted during t…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6298: a new witness of the biblical commentaries from the Canterbury School in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 months agoManuscript Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 6298 contains an as yet unexamined fragment of the second batch of the gospel glosses (EvII) from the biblical commentaries of the Canterbury School inserted as an addition in 3r of the manuscript. In this article, I describe this fragment, and I attempt to contextualize its insertion into the…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Technical Signs in Early Medieval Manuscripts Copied in Irish Minuscule in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoBesides glosses and other textual annotations, early medieval Latin manuscript commonly feature technical signs, annotation symbols and sigla that reflect readership or provide a framework for interpretation and use. The early medieval Insular book users were particularly keen on using such devices. This article maps the usage of technical signs…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited The prehistory of the Latin Acts of Peter (BHL 6663) and the Latin Acts of Paul (BHL 6575). Some observations about the development of the Virtutes apostolorum in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 months, 2 weeks agoThe extensive chains of excerpts from the Scriptures and other sources in two of the narratives prominent in the Virtutes apostolorum, the Acts of Peter (BHL 6663) and the Acts of Paul (BHL 6575) are studied in order to come to a clearer understanding of the origin of these Latin texts. The Virtutes apostolorum is an amalgam of textual material…[Read more]
Irene van Renswoude deposited The Censor’s Rod: Textual Criticism, Judgment and Canon Formation in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThis article explores how the ancient graphic symbol of the obelus changed from being an instrument of textual criticism to a tool of censure between c. 200 and 900.
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Irene van Renswoude deposited The annotated Gottschalk: Critical signs and control of heterodoxy in the Carolingian age in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 4 months, 3 weeks agoThis article discusses the use of critical signs during doctrinal debates against the background of the history of textual criticism and critical annotation from Antiquity to the Carolingian age.
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Evina Steinova deposited Psalmos, notas, cantus: On the Meanings of nota in the Carolingian Period in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 months agoThe Latin quotation in the title of this article is taken from the Admonitio generalis, a key document of Charlemagne’s reforms circulated in 789. In a well-known passage, to which the title refers, Charlemagne calls for the establishment of schools and adds a set of subjects that might be interpreted as the school curriculum. The whole passage…[Read more]
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Evina Steinova deposited Nota superponere studui: the Use of technical signs in the early Middle Ages (a dissertation summary) in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 months agoThis is the English summary of my dissertation Notam superponere studui: the use of technical signs in the early Middle Ages, which was defended on March 18, 2016 at Utrecht University.
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Evina Steinova deposited Notam superponere studui: the art of using symbols (rather than words) to annotate text in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 5 months agoThis blog post originally appeared on the website of Huygens ING (https://www.huygens.knaw.nl/marginal-scholarship-annoteren-met-behulp-van-tekens-in-plaats-van-woorden/?lang=en) on June 30, 2016. It was published both in Dutch and in English as a part of a four-part series about the Marginal Scholarship project, which was hosted by the Huygens…[Read more]
Carlos Baliñas-Pérez deposited “A Flumine Mineo usque in Tagum”: os camiños diverxentes de Galicia e Portugal na Idade Media (700-1100) in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoBeing part of a monography on the origins of Portuguese and Galician identities, this paper studies how future Portugal and Galicia, being part of a same polty in the Early Middle Ages, became different countries although maintaining strong cultural and historical links.
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Carlos Baliñas-Pérez deposited El Territorium Saliniense y los orígenes altomedievales de la comarca de Arousa. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoCase study on the territorialization of Early Medieval Galicia (NW Iberia) centered on the land of O Salnés, taking into account the meaning of the place-name, the Roman past, the political organziation (county of Slnés), the appropriation of the land and the defensive system agains the Northmen iand Moslem sea-attacks.
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Carlos Baliñas-Pérez deposited “A Flumine Mineo usque in Tagum”: os camiños diverxentes de Galicia e Portugal na Idade Media (700-1100) in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoBeing part of a monography on the origins of Portuguese and Galician identities, this paper studies how future Portugal and Galicia, being part of a same polty in the Early Middle Ages, became different countries although maintaining strong cultural and historical links.
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Carlos Baliñas-Pérez deposited El Territorium Saliniense y los orígenes altomedievales de la comarca de Arousa. in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 7 months, 2 weeks agoCase study on the territorialization of Early Medieval Galicia (NW Iberia) centered on the land of O Salnés, taking into account the meaning of the place-name, the Roman past, the political organziation (county of Slnés), the appropriation of the land and the defensive system agains the Northmen iand Moslem sea-attacks.
Ricky Broome deposited Approaches to Community in the Frankish Kingdoms c.650-800: Continuity and Change in the group
Early Medieval on Humanities Commons 7 months, 3 weeks agoThis paper considers how the narratives composed by seventh- and eighth-century authors reflect conceptions of one of the communities of which the authors were a part; the community of the
regnum Francorum. I will focus on five historical authors who particularly embody the developments which took place in these centuries: the compiler of the…[Read more]- Load More